"In comparison, a human's knife is much sharper. The moment the blade slices through, they won't feel any pain. At most, they'll feel a chill on their neck and a bit of dizziness, and that's it."
"If you ask me how I know this... you're better off asking a butcher. It's not a chef's business."
Tossing the ice-cold spruce grouse into his back basket, he returned to the riverbank to wash the bloodstains from his arrow and glanced at the gillnet at the bottom of the river.
In just a few short minutes, two unlucky souls had already thrown themselves into the net.
Fish don't have brains as sophisticated as mammals. This is especially true for salmon during their migration, whose bodies are completely controlled by instinct, thinking only of moving forward, forward, and forward.
When blocked by the gillnet, they just think they've hit an obstacle. As they struggle, their scales get snagged on the net's lines, or they get stuck on the spot while trying to push through.
